Berta Gleizer Ribeiro e as artes das vidas amazônicas by Lúcia Hussak van Velthem, Bianca Luiza Freire de Castro França, José Ribamar Bessa Freire

“…The reflections that follow focus on the approaches to which the anthropologist paid special attention, such as those connected to the study of everyday objects, to Amazonian aesthetics, to the mythology of the indigenous peoples of the upper Rio Negro, and also to ecological issues. …”
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Islamic Feminism in Morocco: A Generational Comparison Between Fatima Mernissi and Asma Lamrabet by Francesca Neri

“…Using a theoretical framework such as the one proposed by anthropologist Talal Asad regarding Islam’s discursive tradition, it can instead be seen that, rather than a true generational change, what is occurring is a normal evolution of the primary theory attributable to Mernissi. …”
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Sociologia, cultura e arte: um debate entre espaços e tempos by Eliska Altmann

“…Based on the volumes of the Brazilian anthropologist Gilberto Velho - Sociologia da arte; Sociologia da arte II; and Arte e sociedade - ensaios de sociologia da arte (1966, 1967 and 1977) - in light of the book A sociologia da arte (2008), of the French sociologist Nathalie Heinich, the article highlights Brazilian publications comprising thinkers of sociology of art and culture through space-time dialogues. …”
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The Last Word by Jan Boessenkool

“… As an organisational anthropologist I was very enthusiastic about the philosophy of the ubuntu concept when I heard and read about it a couple of years ago. …”
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Nouvelles proxémies en Europe ? by Pierre Donadieu

“…It shows that the proxemics principles of spatial distance, highlighted by the American anthropologist E. T. Hall fifty years ago to address the urban space crisis, could be relayed by the idea of landscape geomediation. …”
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De l’incident de terrain à l’écriture de l’évocation by Claire Vionnet

“…Drawing on a fieldwork on contemporary dance, the anthropologist highlights how a phenomenological description of dance can expand choreographers’ questions that might be raised within the dance studio. …”
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O multiverso predatório dos deuses canibais: o legado de Joanna Overing by Els Lagrou, Luisa Elvira Belaunde

“…In this sense, we propose a brief intellectual biography of an American anthropologist born in 1938 who did fieldwork in Venezuela, taught in the United States, England and Scotland, weaved interdisciplinary dialogues between philosophy, linguistics and anthropology and stimulated exchanges between ethnology carried out in England, France, Scandinavia and Brazil. …”
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The Metaphysics of Justice: Ayelala’s Rise in Benin and Other Parts of Edo State by Benson Ohihon Igboin

“…Building on the arguments of the British anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard, who suggests that witchcraft explains unfortunate events, this article argues that the experience of certain fortunate events, such as the punishment of evildoers or the revelation of metaphysical causes of death, confirm the existence of Ayelala as a counter-force to witchcraft and other forms of metaphysical evil. …”
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Étudier la langue vietnamienne dans l’enseignement supérieur à Paris pendant les années 1990 : démarche réflexive d’un apprentissage dans une conjoncture historique by François Guillemot

“…Based on our course notebooks from the Vietnamese sections at Inalco and Paris 7 between 1989 and 1998, we are attempting, like an anthropologist relying on his notebooks, to trace the contours of a cultural history in progress. …”
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Postscript on the «Siberian Century»: response to Alexey Sushko by P. A. Eltsov

“…The article contains a reply to the critical comments by Alexey Sushko on the translation of the separate chapter from the book «Long Telegram 2: Neo-Kennanite Approach to Russia» by the American anthropologist, historian and political scientist Peter Eltsov. …”
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Autonomia delle persone in movimento e antropologia compromessa: riflessioni sulle reciproche influenze nella gestione dell’immigrazione in Perù by Irene Palla

“…Its management is a privileged observation field for the analysis of the interactions between new and old local and international actors on narratives, practices, and hierarchies of power. The anthropologist recognizes herself as part of this process. …”
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Le don/contre-don à l’épreuve d’un dispositif tutoral : des conséquences dans le domaine de la pédagogie universitaire ? by Alain Baudrit

“…A tutorial system set up at the Medicine School in Bordeaux University reveals practices similar to the gift/counter-gift trading system observed by the anthropologist Marcel Mauss in many Archaic societies. …”
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L’héritage d’Alfred Kiyana et l’énigme des paquets cérémoniels meskwaki by Emmanuel Désveaux

“…At the beginning of the 20th century, Alfred Kiyana entrusted the anthropologist Michelson with the liturgical text related to a so-called sacred bundle. …”
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«Cold War 2.0» and neo-kennanite approach to Russia: Siberia and Russian Nation by A. V. Sushko

“…The article contains the analytical commentary on Russian translation of the separate chapter from the book «Long Telegram 2: Neo-Kennanite Approach to Russia» by American anthropologist, historian and political scientist Peter Eltsov. …”
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Eltsov P. A. Siberian Century / trans. from Engl. by A. V. Sushko

“…The article presents the translation of a separate chapter from the book of the American anthropologist, historian and political scientist Peter Eltsov, «Long Telegram 2: Neo-Kennanite Approach to Russia», which caused a strong resonance in Russia. …”
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Dal dono al souvenir. Pratiche del dare e avere tra economia del turismo e cultura dell’ospitalità by Lucilla Rami Ceci

“…Here, just a long time, sites of historical and natural interest make up the scene of contacts between locals and visitors. The anthropologist who critically recalls  his role is seen as  internal into business and symbolic practices belonging representative and cultural objects. …”
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More than a binder... Disappeared persons’ mothers and their case files in Mexico by Isaac Vargas

“…Through this perspective, which goes beyond the rational limits imposed by the state, this paper is based on the negative methodology proposed by the anthropologist Yael Navaro. Thus, one of the conclusions shows how through objects the disappeared persons continue to participate in the everyday life of their loved ones, as well as in the claims for justice. …”
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The Historical Sociology of Rural-Urban Development by James Scott: Against Simplifications by A. M. Nikulin

“…This article is a critical analysis of the historical and sociological works of the American political anthropologist J. S. Scott (1936-2024). His works were largely related to the study of the contradictions of social development between the city and the village. …”
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L’ixeutique, un exemple de gestion empirique de la biodiversité végétale par la communauté traditionnelle Tsaaya du massif du Chaillu, Congo by Victor Kimpouni, Jean Pierre Makita-Madzou, Ernest Apani, Marcel Motom

“…The traditional societies and especially their knowledge interested more than one anthropologist, in particular those of the first ages. …”
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The Breaking of the Square: Late Victorian Representations of Anglo-Sudanese Warfare by Luisa Villa

“…The analysis elicits reflections on the construction of normative masculinity (with its emphasis on disciplined aggressiveness), on the perception of modern technology (which often made victory over native fighters alarmingly easy and hardly honorable), on the “uses” of violence and on the dynamics of “Imperialist nostalgia” (as the anthropologist Rosaldo dubbed it), i.e. the coloniser’s own regret at the inevitable destruction of native societies brought about by the process of compulsory modernization.…”
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